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Spencer Wellhofer, Professor

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Email: ewellhof@du.edu

curriculum vitae

http://portfolio.du.edu/ewellhof

Education

Ph. D.  Columbia University, 1971

M. A.   Columbia University, 1965

B.A.     Pennsylvania State University, 1963

Areas

Major Publications

(Forthcoming) “Democracy, Fascism and Civil Society,” in Rescuing Democracy: The Lure of the Associative Elixir, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Editor, University of Mannheim and Mannheim Centre for European Research (MZES). London: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science.

(2003) “Democracy and Fascism: Class, Civil Society, and Rational Choice.” American Political Science Review, 97, 1, (February) 91-106.

(2001) “Party Realignment and Voter Transitions in Italy, 1987-1996.” Comparative Political Studies, 34, 2, (March) 156-86.

(1996) Democracy, Capitalism and Empire in Late Victorian Britain, 1885-1910. London: Macmillan Press, Ltd.; New York: St. Martin’s Press.

Current Research

(1) The project focuses on democratic transitions in the context of 19th Century Globalization. The project examines three cases at different points in the 19th Century Atlantic Economy: Britain at the Core, Italy at the European Periphery, and Argentina at the Periphery. The research question asks: How did the expansion of trade advantage or disadvantage economic sectors and how did this influence the transition to democracy?


(2) While much attention focuses on religious revivals in America and the Middle East, European countries evidence a long-run secularization of politics. Italy, once a highly religious country, illustrates this secularization and its political consequences. The project proposes the up-dating and extension of an existing data archive, previously funded by the National Science Foundation, to examine the political consequences of religion and secularization.

Courses Taught

SOCS 1610 Power & Justice

CORE 2616 Globalization and Its Discontents

PLSC 2220  Democratization

PLSC 2370  Global Political Economy

PLSC 2701  Political Inquiry

PLSC 2760  Democracy & Capitalism

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